Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33746 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #71 / 7449
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4644 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #475 / 1275
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18780 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #787 / 3877
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #175 / 584
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #257 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #106 / 859
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 304 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #15 / 103
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10889 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #879 / 3076
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #107 / 1172
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #239 / 882
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7939 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #565 / 1885
- Number of attempts: 3
Hash staircase - 56 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #21 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 836 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #206 / 231
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1542 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #234 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #128 / 178
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #238 / 706
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #115 / 641
- Number of attempts: 7
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #40 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3 / 19
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1210 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 317 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #100 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #671 / 701
- Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 145 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #11 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 132 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #9 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11497 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #386 / 4215
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #179 / 383
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #405 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #62 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7967 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 244 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #35 / 66
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2234 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 679
- Number of attempts: 6
Build a six - 305 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #70 / 98
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1036 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 252
- Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 51 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #15 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 539 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #80 / 144
- Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 168 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #40 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #72 / 1192
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 327 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #242 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #117 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #303 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #80 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #47 / 586
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #777 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #593 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 2039 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #34 / 521
- Number of attempts: 8
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #111 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Build a six - 305 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
Cool or not? - 836 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...